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Back to Search153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3)
Season 9 Episode 6
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in s…
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152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2)
Season 9 Episode 5
Thomas Jefferson is one of the most complex figures in the whole American Revolution. A child of the enlightenment, it was he who wrote 'we hold thes…
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151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1)
Season 9 Episode 4
Everybody knows Washington as the strapping, powerful general and then president who helped to overthrow the British and forge America, but how did h…
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150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England
Season 9 Episode 3
Deerfield, February 1704. The small, puritan town of roughly 300 inhabitants in western Massachusetts has been riven with tension ever since the Fren…
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149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia
Season 9 Episode 2
One of the most famous names in American history, Pocahontas had an extraordinary life. She was the daughter of Powhatan, a great Native American chi…
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148. America: The Empire of Liberty
Season 9 Episode 1
The Empire that dare not speak its name. America was born through an explicit rejection of empire as it forced the British from the continent and ind…
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147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4)
Season 8 Episode 15
In 1877 Queen Victoria took on the title Empress of India, a nation which she undoubtedly had close to her heart. Yet, under her reign and that of he…
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146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3)
Season 8 Episode 14
Across 1851, over 6,000,000 people went to London to see the Great Exhibition. Designed to showcase the very best of what Britain and the empire coul…
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145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2)
Season 8 Episode 13
It is one of the great love affairs of history. Upon meeting again shortly after her 18th birthday, Victoria and Albert became smitten with each othe…
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144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1)
Season 8 Episode 12
Born on the 24th May 1819, Alexandrina Victoria was fifth in line to the throne at a time in which the monarchy’s popularity was declining. Yet, over…
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